Riot In Flatbush NY Against the Practices of the NYPD

A Message on Taking Risks and Winning: Go for It

Go for it

(from "Yellow on Black - Asian African Love" blog)
The situations where you're most likely to make mistakes are also situations in which you have the greatest opportunities to make progress. When there's something on the line, there's something to be gained. Don't seek to make mistakes, but don't seek to avoid them either. Seek instead to put yourself in circumstances that challenge you to grow.

When there's the possibility of making a bad impression, there's also the possibility to make a great impression. Success comes from being able to accept the risk of failure. When you ask for something, there's a good chance that you'll be turned down. But if you never ask, there's a rock solid certainty that you won't get what you seek. By asking often enough and sincerely enough, you'll get the answer you're after. By listening to enough people tell you no, you'll find someone who tells you yes. Make the effort, put yourself on the line, and go for it.

Though the road can be bumpy at times, the way to get there is to get going.

-- Ralph Marston Ins

Well It's just . . . just . . . hard to know, ya know?

There are those things we may cherish from our past, that make us yearn for what we thought or think were 'better times', but we know we can only wish for such, because if we ever found it what would we do next? We are just restless creatures who like to build and build upon them..?

Hard to know . . .

Woodside Park, West Philadelphia circa 1945

We all wish for that amusement park feel to cover over whatever it is about life that confuses us, that makes us fear the unknown, that keeps us from being us so much.

Of course, we could falter wondering about it as we do, with what effect none of us know, really.

Young man with 1930 Chevy in 1946. West River Drive. Fairmount Park Phila

Perhaps we will find that magical solace that will make us whole again...perhaps.

or maybe it won't ever will.